19 y/o black girl beaten by police and maliciously attacked by police dog

[AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,097]

This is why we have black lives matter 

[PartySick 172,545]

Ridiculous

There's needs to be some accountability here. Not only are these cops tainting the image of the police as a whole, innocent people are getting hurt, even killed. Sick.

[Hyperballad 4,311]

This is so disgusting. I hope those officers get what they deserve. 

[Mary Jane Wayne 1,997]

This makes me angry

I HATE THIS WORLD

Poor girl

[britneyspears 497]

Ahh, so this thread barely gets 2 pages in 3 hours, yet the thread about cultural appropriation has pages upon pages relatively quickly of people saying "cultural appropriation doesn't exist!!!111"...

Poor girl. This is utterly disgusting, but sadly not unexpected since police brutality against black individuals has been an everpresent part of society. I hope she gets the justice she deserves, though I'm doubtful anything will happen unfortunately.

[Panchecco 17,892]

the fact that she was basically my age makes it ever more ****ed up

[Phoenix 17,395]

That's so stupid. Policemen are ****ed up everywhere, but tbh in these western countries they are the pits. Hope they get fired.

[Giorno Giovanna 3,178]

4 hours ago, Irrelevant said:

Glad she's okay

She got ****ing arrested for drinking water?

What a Father's Day

I hate this world

not sure if you can't read but the text says officers had been looking for a suspect — described as a 25- to 30-year-old, bald black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing about 170 pounds — who had threatened several people with a machete at a nearby grocery store

“She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Christopher Moore, the arresting officer, wrote in his report.

 

[EmeraldHeart 335]

29 minutes ago, ToughHooker said:

not sure if you can't read but the text says officers had been looking for a suspect — described as a 25- to 30-year-old, bald black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing about 170 pounds — who had threatened several people with a machete at a nearby grocery store

“She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Christopher Moore, the arresting officer, wrote in his report.

 

Obviously the user was being hyperbolic. They didn't think that she was actually arrested for drinking water, but that's all she was doing when she got slammed to the ground and a police dog attacked her.

 

She didn't match the description of the suspect at all except she is black.

 

The suspect was 25- to 30-year-old. Tatyana is 19.

The suspect was bald. Tatyana has hair.

The suspect was male. Tatyana is female.

The suspect had a goatie. Tatyana has no facial hair.

The suspect was 5-foot-10. Tatyana is 5-foot-2.

The suspect weighed about 170 pounds. Tatyana weighs 115 pounds "when wet".

 

Tatyana's only crime was being black in public. Police saw her and assumed her guilt because the color of her skin matched the skin color of  a suspect.

 

Not often that you hear about a 19 y/o white girl getting held at gun point, getting beaten and getting set upon by dogs because police thought she might be a 5-foot-10, 30 year old, bald, 170 pound man with facial hair.

[Dominic 11,922]

Always happening in the US. I highly doubt it was a case of mistaken identity. At least not after she was formally stopped anyway. It's an abuse of power and accountability should be taken. 

I also don't like how they used the dog as an unnecessary weapon either but that's a whole larger issue of mine. 

[Wixson 5,004]

She's 19! This is so disturbing. 

[Hurem 17,801]

America needs to get their **** together.

[Mikey Monster 1,561]

God this makes me fuxking sick! My heart breaks for her and her family. Glad she is recovering but that officer needs to be arrested and put away 😢😢😢😡😡😡

[AmericanGUY 4,609]

A black 19-year-old woman was punched in the mouth by an officer, bitten by a police K9 and arrested last month after an officer said he mistook her for a 180-pound bald man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store.

Tatyana Hargrove’s story has been gaining attention this week after the NAACP's Bakersfield chapter released a Facebook video Monday morning recapping the incident, which it said was racially motivated.

It comes about six months after the group released a similar video alleging two black college students were roughed up similarly by Bakersfield Police Department officers without cause.

(note this police force does not have bodycams)

The arresting officer, Christopher Moore, said in a police report obtained by The Californian that he didn’t know Hargrove was a woman until after she was handcuffed.

He mistook her for a machete-wielding suspect who had come out of the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market on Ming and Ashe avenues after threatening several people, according to the report.

That man, who police identified as Douglas Washington before arresting him the next day, was described in multiple police reports from June 18 as a 25- to 30-year-old man, bald, about 170 pounds standing at 5 feet 10 inches. He was wearing a white t-shirt, dark jeans and a pink or red backpack that contained the machete.

When Moore found Hargrove behind the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, the 115-pound teen, who stands 5 feet 2 inches, was wearing a baggy white shirt, blue jean shorts and a black hat. She was straddling a bicycle, a red and black backpack slung over her shoulder. In it were three cold water bottles, Hargrove said in her video. She had pulled over in the shade for a drink.

source: http://www.bakersfield.com/news/black-teenage-woman-mistaken-for-machete-wielding-black-man-alleges/article_0ae15203-8291-5774-887b-95df9acfb2a8.html

video by NAACP Bakersfield:

Spoiler

 

was this a case of police brutality or mistaken identity?

[Guest]

There is some instances where it is actually not police brutality but they look nothing alike its most definitely brutality